With much discussion in 2014 over what city will be the next Silicon Valley, it seems as if every job market is trying to get its share of high tech industry investment, and along with the companies, a share of the tech talent needed to make these companies successful.

Locally, the job market is as competitive as ever with a 2014 article from Crain’s Cleveland Business describing several real life scenarios from Northeast Ohio tech companies involving “super crazy demand” for highly specialized skills within IT, recruitment of passive candidates away from gainful employment, and a focus on creating workplace cultures to lure top talent into new companies, just to name a few.

While the subjective influences that may be at play in this seemingly chaotic battle for top tech talent are a bit more amorphous and take time to develop (i.e. creating an appealing brand or organizational culture) there are also key objective facts that can be identified as likely contributors to the competitive and complex nature of the IT job market.Read this article...